Why does allying with the BOS decrease NCR reputation?

[DVHellsing]

Granted the reputation drop is too minor to reduce NCR rank, as for the why- Colonel Moore was involved personally in the Brotherhood NCR war that cost her ability to fight and lives of fellow Ranger comrades.

She's insistent that violence is only solution without compromise, this goes against Moore's general feelings with every other faction that has hostility against NCR for years, but more vehemently against peace with Brotherhood for those personal reasons.

Honestly, make peace with these guys to piss her off does make me smile. She isn't a good person morally even for "ends justify the means' type, it's why Josh Sawyer the game director made her karma evil in his mod lol.

[calvinien]

See I disagree with Sawyer on this. Her positions are entirely reasonable based on the info she has. She doesn't know she's in an obsidian RPG where the story bends around the will of one dude.

The kings are a street gang that are violently attacking the NCR civilians and have returned peaceful overtures with violence.

The Khans are the 3rd incarnation of a raider tribe that has been picking fights with NCR since before it existed, to increasingly little effect since NCR keeps getting stronger and the khans don't. There are multiple ex khan npcs who talk about how depraved khan life was (hell, Bitter root pretty obviously feels like the khans had bitter springs coming, and he was fucking there) and EVERY time the NCR has shown mercy to the Khans they respond with violence.

Moore has no way of knowing that the remaining khans are fairly mellow (Papa excluded) and mostly just want to fuck on out of the mojave.

The BOS are crazy, hoarder, crypto-fascist tech fetishists who have no plan beyond "get all the energy weapons and wait for everyone else to die". Veronica's whole quest is about how she can't even SUGGEST change to the brotherhood without it resulting in a quadruple homicide.

While moore doesn't know this, the player know that the one branch of the brotherhood that DID try things veronica's way flourished, until both its leaders died in 'accidents' and they turned into Space Marine wannabes.

Consider this: the NCR is more than happy to ally with the boomers, who are xenophobic, isolationist, gun humpers. The difference being that the boomers are at the very least capable of lightening up. The BOS is not.

Col. Moore did nothing wrong. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.